Professor Janet Burton: Monastic landscapes

Monastic Houses of the Welsh Marches and their Landscapes
The sites chosen for the foundation of monastic houses were not random but informed by multiple factors often linked to the creation or perpetuation of landscapes: environmental, political, or cultural. Even the Cistercians who professed to seek ‘the desert’ entered into inhabited landscapes, charged with meaning and significance. Once founded, a monastery might transform its physical landscape through economic activities, or create new, metaphorical landscapes of network and power. This talk will consider monasteries of the March in both these contexts.

Janet Burton is Professor Emerita at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where she continues to supervise research students and teach on the MA in Medieval Studies. She and Dr Karen Stöber are the directors of the Monastic Wales project and general editors of the journal Medieval Monastic Studies (published by Brepols). She has published extensively on many aspects of monastic history.

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